Paul Flynn, The Tannery, Dungarvan
We came opposite La Campagnola in Salo (lacampagnola1952.it), by Lake Garda, utterly by possibility – 6 children, dual wives and me. They no doubt suspicion a deficiency of a second father was peculiar, though we left it hang in a atmosphere and revelled in a machismo of it all. The food was simple, delicious, and served with that free Italian style. We betrothed to lapse when a other husband/dad incited adult a few days after – for my 50th birthday.
They greeted us like aged friends. We ate low boiled courgette flowers and frittata to start, along with a honeyed onion risotto, linguini with truffles, a low and noted ragu of lamb, roasted bream with garlic and sage, and crispy tiny rosemary flatbreads to soak adult a juices. The birthday cake was summer berries with lemon cream on a crunchy almond sponge.
I’ve done a onion risotto for a girls a few times since, though we have nonetheless to impulse it . . . “Daddy,” they say, “yours will never be as good as La Campagnola’s, so stop trying.”
Graham Neville, Restaurant FortyOne, Dublin
we visited Brooklyn Fare in New York (brooklynfare.com) recently, that we entirely enjoyed. It’s a tasting menu, in unequivocally elementary vicinity – we roughly wouldn’t trust it’s a three-Michelin star grill from a outside.
You lay adult during a kitchen counter, that seats usually 18 diners, and we have a same menu of 15-plus dishes, a lot of them fish and seafood.
There’s no character over piece – there are unequivocally few mixture on a plate, so this is unequivocally accurate cooking where change and ambience are all important. It strike a ambience records any time – we suspicion it was brilliant.
For holidays this year we will be going behind to Chicago. we worked there and my mother is from a area, so we adore to go back. We are propitious adequate to stay with a American relatives, and a 3 boys get to hang out with their cousins.
Mark Moriarty, San Pellegrino immature prepare of a year 2015
One sold dish that stands out was in Ester grill in Sydney final Feb (ester-restaurant.com. au). It was a final night of an eight-day outing to Australia that enclosed cooking for 100 people on a rooftop in Melbourne, followed by a cookery category for 40 in Sydney. We were treated to a illusory dish that enclosed crispy squid dumplings, salt-baked sand crab, Pyengana cheddar pie, kingfish sashimi with mandarin and roasted cabbage with mustard seeds.
we have been propitious adequate to transport all over a universe in a past 6 months for work. I’ve been to Melbourne, Sydney, Charleston, New York, Singapore, Amalfi, Alta Badia and Paris so distant this year. Before Oct we will be travelling to Switzerland, Cape Town, Hong Kong and Milan. I’m also looking brazen to a genuine holiday with my partner Gráinne – we’re off to Portugal in August.
Ross Lewis, Chapter One, Dublin
we always demeanour behind with lustful memories to a revisit to La Tupina (latupina.com) in Bordeaux, along with some associate Euro-toques chefs in 2002. The nation and mostly abounding cooking of Gascony is during a heart of a restaurant. we vividly remember eating spit-roast steep with a abounding and savoury bread stuffing and chips baked in steep fat over an open hearth.
To start we had sautéed furious cep mushrooms with parsley and garlic. Tasty, rustic, honest-to-goodness food in this iconic, old, dimly-lit building, and cooking over an open fire of colourless and timber – that somehow manages to tack your stomach to your heart.
This year we are off to Spain where we devise to revisit Jerez to serve try sherry, one of my favourite drinks in a world, and we also devise to revisit Asador Etexebarri in Axpe (asadoretxebarri.com) in northern Spain, where they also prepare over a array of colourless and timber grills.
Jess Murphy, Kai, Galway
The best dish I’ve had on holiday was in Kobe in Japan progressing this year. we trafficked there with my father Dave, on a proceed home to New Zealand. We headed true to Wanto Burger (wantoburger.com), this was a must-visit for me and it unequivocally was something. The beef and a burger were unreal.
we am going to Norway in Sep to see my crony Heidi who recently won best prepare in Norway. Going to her grill – Restaurant Credo (restaurantcredo.no) – and sampling a food is something we am so vehement about.
Neven Maguire, MacNean House Restaurant, Blacklion
I’ve been unequivocally propitious and have had some wonderful, extraordinary practice with my mother Amelda and a twins. My favourite has to be San Sebastian. We go there maybe twice a year for a integrate of days.
My positively favourite grill would be Arzak (arzak.info), that is unequivocally tighten to my heart. we lerned there as a prepare and it’s a three-Michelin star restaurant. They have a munificence there that is unimaginable and a affability in what they do. But it’s a association that creates it, as good as a ambience, and we am propitious my mother Amelda unequivocally appreciates good food, a booze and a service.
Our subsequent outing is to San Sebastian, warn surprise. we devise to do a stage during a one-Michelin star grill in Bilbao and afterwards Amelda and a twins are opening over for 5 days.
Conor Dempsey, Amuse, Dublin
The many noted dish I’ve had while on holiday was final year, during Victor’s Fine Dining (victors-gourmet.de) in Perl-Nennig in Germany. The conduct prepare is Christian Bau and it has 3 Michelin stars. we consider Germany is heading a proceed in Europe during a impulse in a grill world, and it was positively stunning.
we was there with my mother Joanna. We had a 12-course tasting menu. we adore Bau’s character of food, with a Japanese influences and a altogether pointing and execution.
Joanna and we met in France and spent a series of years vital there together, so we lapse for a family holiday any year to Nice on a Côte d’Azur. We adore it there and so do a kids … that is a many critical thing. We have requisitioned a holiday there this year for August.
Barry Fitzgerald, Bastible, Dublin
My fiancée and we used to go on food holidays – to Barcelona, Cartmel (the Lake District in England), Paris, Berlin, San Sebastian and Morocco. However, given we had a tiny child dual years ago, we expostulate around Ireland. My fiancée Claremarie is English, so we like display her a pleasing countryside.
For my birthday a few years ago we went to Padstow in Cornwall. It’s a bit wily to get to though a car, though a debate itself was a bit of an adventure. We got a sight from London afterwards cycled a Camel Trail.
We went to Rick Stein’s seafood restaurant, Paul Ainsworth during No 6, and got a vessel over to Rock to go to Nathan Outlaw’s (nathan-outlaw.com) seafood grill where we had a pleasing eight-course tasting menu with booze pairing. We even got to go into a kitchen to accommodate Nathan himself. The grill has altered to Port Isaac now.
Next year we are formulation to go to expostulate to France and Italy to revisit some vineyards.
Kevin Dundon, Dunbrody House, Wexford
The Le Bristol (lebristolparis.com) in Paris is a many memorable. We were with dual unequivocally good friends and we laughed all night. We consider a staff suspected it was some-more than usually high on life – though it was usually one of those nights where all prompted gales of laughter.
Last Nov we stayed during Per Aquum Niyama resort (niyamamaldives.net) in a Maldives. It was fanciful and a food was glorious too. The Nest grill in a treehouse in a jungle was so good that we ate there some-more than once. It’s not always that a food is as extraordinary as a taste and location, though this time it was.
Next adult is India, where I’m formulation a vital piquancy blitz.
Karl Whelan, Luna and Hang Dai, Dublin
My many new outing was to China, Hong Kong and Beijing. The stand-out grill though a doubt was Li Qun in Beijing. we was there in late Jan this year with my business partner Will Dempsey and John Farrell, who is co-designing Hang Dai [our new Dublin restaurant]. The grill is a dim gem, down a dim laneway a stone’s chuck from Tiananmen Square. We went there acid for a best Beijing fry duck.
Once we navigate a alleyway and travel by a PVC walk-in fridge flaps, we enter a universe of wall-to-wall duck. You are greeted by a large, open section oven with ducks roasting in it. The steep is forged table-side. The owners farms his possess ducks. Cracking a technique of whatever he does to them in a cooking routine is a stream concentration of my culinary path.
Garrett Byrne, Campagne, Kilkenny
L’Ambroisie (ambroisie-paris.com) during a Place des Voges, in Paris, has had 3 Michelin stars given God knows when. we have usually “discovered” it in a final integrate of years, and have been perplexing to get over to it as many as probable (when supports allow).
For us – my mother and business partner Bríd and myself – it is all that classical French haute cuisine and use is all about. My favourite dishes so distant are a furious seabass with artichokes and caviar sauce, langoustines with spinach, sesame tuile and curry sauce, and a best fry steep with white truffles for two.
Our new travels have been to Paris and London and we are anticipating subsequent year for Tokyo or San Francisco . . . negotiations are now ongoing between us.
Stephen Gibson, Pichet, Dublin
My tip holiday food memory is a place called Castellabate in southern Italy, about an hour from Solerno. The grill was a run down aged place that looked like it hadn’t been embellished given a 1970s, so expectations were not high. We were offering a special internal fish – salt-baked seabass and salad – that we went for. It was so elementary though so tasty. After a meal, a prepare came to a list carrying found out by a waiter that we was a chef, and wanted to join us for a drink. He was an aged Italian male with no English, so communication was wily though we desired a sentiment.
Kate Lawlor, No 5, Fenn’s Quay, Cork
On a new five-day break, myself and my beloved Dan headed to a Wild Atlantic Way; it was stormy and miserable though we found condolence in food. Two highlights were 1826 (adare.ie) in Adare – a brief road off a WAW though good value it for a comfortable acquire and glorious food – and Cava Bodega (cavarestaurant.ie) in Galway that is full of life.
we am usually behind from a weekend mangle to see a other half in Worcester. We headed to Daylesford Farm in a Cotswolds. It is an extraordinary operation; farm, cookery school, emporium and restaurants. Next adult is a north of Majorca for 5 days. It’s an island that is famous for a food and smashing red booze that is frequency exported.
Garrett Fitzgerald, Brother Hubbard, Dublin
Marrakech is usually a few hours away, though it feels like not usually have we altered enlightenment and country, though also time-travelled to boot. The best food knowledge we had there was fasten my friend, Youssef, who runs a walking food debate of a city. In one evening, we lonesome 6 eateries – all packaged full of internal people – enjoying samples of a best of Moroccan cuisine.
One of my favourites was a tiny Restaurant Naima, run by 3 generations of women, cooking all directly in front of their guests, including scheming couscous by massaging it, as is tradition there and that gives a many smashing results. There were usually 3 dishes on their menu, though how fantastic those dishes were. The food debate is accessible during marrakechfoodtours.com
Ciaran Sweeney, Forest Marcy, Dublin
Last year while on holiday in Lisbon, we came opposite dual unequivocally engaging and opposite places. Leopold is a unequivocally tiny grill run by a father (chef) and mother (front of house), and that was it. There was a one-choice menu, of 4 courses, for €32, and a food was complicated Portuguese. Also on that outing we visited a unequivocally complicated tapas place Mini Bar (minibar.pt). The prepare was before during elBulli and a food was utterly witty and exciting.
Two years ago myself and Mary went to an island off a seashore of Italy called Ischia and ate during a two-star grill called Il Mosaico. It was one of my best ever meals.
After a birth of my daughter in April, if we do go divided this year we consider it will be a pushing holiday to a Cotswolds in England. It is a pleasing partial of a world, with poetic tiny restaurants. One in sold is a little-known Michelin one-star called 5 North Street in Cheltenham (5northstreetrestaurant. co.uk).
Wade Murphy, Restaurant 1826, Adare
Two dishes we had on holidays unequivocally mount out. One was Alinea in Chicago a few years ago (alinearestaurant.com), when we went behind to revisit friends. Myself and Elaine met in Chicago before returning home in 2007. That was a dish knowledge over anything I’ve ever had before.
In January, Elaine and myself had an extraordinary dish in Irish prepare Liam Tomlin’s Chefs Warehouse Canteen in Cape Town (chefswarehouse.co.za). It was so tasty, uninformed and full of extraordinary flavours. Tapas-style menu for two, no choice, served 3 dishes during a time.
Next Jan we are going behind to Cape Town, though this time for 10 days. We usually adore it over there. Good food, good wine, fever and poetic people.
Grainne O’Keefe, Pichet, Dublin
One of a best restaurants we have been to is De Locos Tapas (de-locos-tapas.com) in Ronda, Spain. It is a tiny tapas grill run by a father and wife; a mother is a prepare and a father is a front of house.
The use here is a best we have encountered though it is a food that sets this place apart. The menu is handwritten daily and has a far-reaching preference of tapas dishes, any some-more gratifying than a next. we have visited this grill twice and will be creation a lapse outing subsequent year.
Damien Grey, Heron Grey, Blackrock, Dublin
Jock Zonfrillo’s grill Orana in Adelaide (restaurantorana.com) is a place we would keep going behind to, or Biota in Bowral, New South Wales (biotadining.com), that is where I’m from. Those lads are unequivocally coming food in Australia in a proceed that has not been seen.
we intend to revisit Frantzén in Stockholm (restaurantfrantzen.com) this winter as it is a contingency for me during a moment. The concept, a proceed to food and a magnificence of this grill make it into my tip 3 restaurants in a universe to revisit today.
Danni Barry, Deane’s EIPIC, Belfast
Myself and my crony Monto Mansour (pastry prepare during Harry’s) took a outing to Girona to eat during El Celler Can Roca (cellercanroca.com). This is a many noted dish I’ve ever had. The grill is in an industrial estate and a opening is unassuming, though once we go by to a room and a conservatory, it’s stunning. The cooking is unequivocally technical though a lot of a flavours are secure in a Roca brothers’ Spanish upbringing.
My final holiday was in Copenhagen, where we ate in a many extraordinary restaurants both infrequent and high-end. A genuine standout was Geist (restaurantgeist.dk).
This year I’m off to Valencia in Spain. we lived here for a while, so it will be good to locate adult with some friends in a chilled-out aged town. I’m also looking brazen to eating in El Poblet, ran by Quique Dacosta (elpobletrestaurante.com).
Dave Coffey, The Sussex, Dublin
My mother and we took a outing to Seville final year and had lunch in Restaurante Abades Triana (abadestriana.com) on a river. We sat on a patio and a perspective of a city was stunning. My mother was profound with a second daughter; that was a final outing divided though kids.
We’re usually behind from a family outing to a Algarve in Portugal and we’re articulate about holding a weekend in Lisbon. I’d also be meddlesome in saying Reykjavik.